Daytime.
The sky was still dark.
After Pang Jian walked out, he saw in front of him was a wetland swamp filled with a damp atmosphere.
He looked to the left again.
This direction would allow him to reach the residence arranged for him by Fan Liang, where many independent cultivators gathered, and it was also a stronghold set up by An Gui in Yunze.
He looked to the right again.
This direction leads to deeper into Yunze, where there are many ferocious beasts like unicorn rhinoceros and black and white king pythons.
After hesitating for a moment, he did not choose to go to where the crowd gathered, but went to the right alone.
Jungles, swamps, poisonous miasma, ferocious beasts and spiritual beasts, these are the environments he is accustomed to.
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The other end.
The wooden houses are scattered here and there.
Dozens of practitioners of different realms gathered in groups of three or five, talking about the ferocious beasts in Yunze.
Meng Qiulan, the new leader of the Dark Ghost Hall, suddenly appeared with her two female disciples. The eyes of the practitioners here suddenly lit up and they all cast malicious glances over.
Meng Qiulan snorted coldly.
Behind her, a thin man with dark skin suddenly appeared and grinned strangely at everyone.
"Ling Qing!"
When they saw the thin man appear, their expressions changed and they quickly retracted their presumptuous gazes.
They are all independent cultivators who have been active in Yunze for a long time, and there is no sectarian force backing them up.
Ling Qing is different. Although they don’t know Ling Qing’s true background, they know that there is an organization behind him.
Moreover, Ling Qing is also the actual controller of this stronghold.
Meng Qiulan nodded with satisfaction, and under Ling Qing's arrangement, she went to the tidiest wooden house.
"Master Meng, that kid only came once and disappeared afterwards."
After closing the door, Ling Qing bowed and reported, "He said he was going to Yunze for a stroll, but half a month has passed and he hasn't shown up since."
Meng Qiulan frowned.
She originally wanted to take a look at Hong Tai's nephew to see if he was a promising talent. When she heard that he hadn't appeared for a long time, she didn't take it to heart, but asked, "I heard that the broken lands close to Tianyun have been acting strange recently..."
Ling Qing's eyes were filled with horror, and he nodded heavily: "Reporting to the Hall Master, not many people know about this matter, and we, the Dark Ghost, just happened to know about it."
He paused for a moment, organizing his words, the shock in his eyes gradually turned into fear, and he said in a deep voice: "The broken lands under the jurisdiction of the Ouyang family have filthy forces from the fifth realm that are slowly infiltrating upwards."
Meng Qiulan took a deep breath and said solemnly, "The Shattered Land was the hardest hit, but many people died?"
Among the many hall masters of the dark ghosts, Meng Qiulan is favored by the leader. She rushed to the Tianyun Shattered Land in an emergency to find out the truth of this matter.
Ling Qing's voice trembled slightly: "Not only did many people die, but also very few people in the city could survive in those broken lands that were infected by the filthy alien force. Those who survived were said to have turned into terrifying aliens."
"The filthy power of the fifth realm and the filthy power of Yunze and other forbidden areas in the fourth realm are completely different things!"
"The Ouyang family, the city lords assigned to those Broken Land cities, and their families, it seems that no one can survive!"
Ling Qing licked the corners of his dry mouth and finally said, "The Ouyang family has blocked the news, and the other families may not know about it. I just hope that the abnormality in that area will not affect the broken land under our feet."
Behind Meng Qiulan, her two female disciples' faces changed when they heard this.
"It's really strange. When I came here, I heard from the leader that there hasn't been such a disaster in many years." Meng Qiulan also shook her head and said bitterly: "The leader asked me to come here because he wanted me to understand why the filthy power from the lower world suddenly floated to the fourth world."
…
In the clouds and swamp.
Pang Jian traveled alone, and sometimes he would run into some practitioners who were capturing ferocious beasts, and those people would avoid him when they saw him.
Half a month ago, not long after he appeared in Yunze, he killed a group of wandering cultivators who had evil intentions.
The "spiritual evil" condensed by Luo Hongyan came from those dead cultivators.
It was that attack that made all the nearby cultivators know that he was Hong Tai's nephew. Hong Tai became notorious in Yunze, and no one dared to provoke him after that.
Pang Jian, without a clear purpose, came to a muddy swamp. The Tianling Tower was now buried in silt at the bottom of the swamp.
After looking for a while and making sure that no one had noticed the White Tower, he continued to move deeper into the area.
As night fell, he came to an unfamiliar jungle.
The trees and plants here grow extremely lushly, and the moist air is filled with the scent of grass.
He breathed in the scent of grass and trees in the air, and suddenly he felt a strong desire to practice with the surrounding spiritual energy.
Ever since he came to Qianli Yunze, he has been practicing with spirit stones and spirit jade because this is the most efficient way.
This is the first time that I have had such a sudden urge to use the surrounding environment to practice.
He sat down casually, concentrated his mind and entered a state of cultivation, silently practicing the "Hutian Yangqi Jue".
Suddenly, he remembered the giant dark anaconda and wanted to take a look at it.
But thinking back to the last time when he was so exhausted that he fell into a sleep, he forced himself to suppress his desire to spy on the fifth realm.
He put all thoughts of prying out of his mind, and used the "Hutian Yangqi Jue" to absorb the mixed spiritual energy of heaven and earth. He immediately felt the fresh and natural scent of grass and trees, mixed with some other strange scents, escaping into his dantian together with the spiritual energy.
The proportion of spiritual energy is very low.
He learned from Luo Hongyan that as long as it is not pure spiritual energy, any power it has will be regarded as mixed power.
Of course, there are also some special spells, such as the "Earth Flame Spell" or the "Xuan Yin Spell", which can specifically utilize mixed forces to enhance combat effectiveness.
"There should be special formulas to utilize the essence of plants and trees to grow medicinal herbs."
He tried to condense the most concentrated essence of plants and trees around him.
He suddenly felt that the strands of plant essence he absorbed, once entering his Dantian spiritual sea, flowed along his meridians towards the bronze plate.
Pang Jian, who had been trying to figure out the secret of the bronze plate but had never discovered it, immediately perked up and practiced the "Hutian Yangqi Jue" even harder.
Time passed like water, and Pang Jian was in a state of ecstasy.
He opened his eyes only when he felt that he had collected most of the energy from the nearby plants and trees.
He immediately saw that all the trees, flowers and plants within a ten-foot radius centered on him had withered and died!
"call!"
A green sapling quietly emerged from the bronze door, releasing a jade-like green glow and flying into the air.
Pang Jian was surprised.
Without giving it much thought, he immediately followed the sapling that flew out from the bronze plate, fearing that it would be targeted and intercepted by a wandering cultivator.
It didn't fly for long.
The magical little sapling quickly chose another vibrant forest and landed in the grass playfully.
It took root instantly!
It no longer emitted a strange green glow, but appeared ordinary, with no obvious difference from the nearby plants and trees.
If Pang Jian, who had been chasing it all the way, had not been keeping an eye on it, he probably wouldn't have known how magical it was.
"First it was the dark giant anaconda, and now it's this strange... vine tree? Could the sudden urge I had earlier to absorb the energy of plants and trees come from it?"
Pang Jian’s thoughts were turning.
Suddenly, he felt that this sapling was also slowly absorbing the energy of the nearby plants and trees, just like he had done before.
This is just like when the dark anaconda left the bronze plate, it no longer relied on him and was able to obtain filthy supernatural powers from the darkness.
"strangeness… "
Pang Jian tried to close his eyes, and another new vision immediately emerged in his mind.
He felt like he had turned into that small sapling. He saw the towering ancient trees and the astonishingly large flowers and plants.
—But the grass beside him was not even up to his chest.
“It’s the vision of the sapling!”
Pang Jian was amazed beyond words.
Immediately, the bronze plate on his chest became extremely cold.
Looking down, he found that the bronze plate was covered with a layer of ice crystals, which looked like the mirror tunnel on the surface of Ulan Lake.
At the same time, another perspective suddenly emerged in his mind.
That vision belongs to the dark giant anaconda in the fifth realm.
"call out!"
Suddenly, the ice crystal wrapped in the bronze plate shot a strange light at the ordinary sapling.
After the strange light appeared, Pang Jian and the bronze plate on his chest followed the strange light and escaped directly into the sapling!
A feeling of pain as if his bones and flesh were being torn apart and his head was about to explode instantly enveloped Pang Jian's whole body.
By the time he got used to the pain in his body, he felt the loss of spiritual energy in his body before he even opened his eyes.
The spiritual energy in the spiritual sea was once again contaminated by the dirty alien power, just like the first time he entered the dark alley.
But this time, the filthy power was much weaker than that in Bagua City, and the speed at which his spiritual power was infected was also quite slow.
He finally opened his eyes.
Soon I found that he was not in Yunze, nor next to the sapling, and the sky above his head was not gray.
But it is the ultimate darkness!
"The fifth realm!"
Pang Jian was horrified.
The next moment, he saw a dark giant anaconda not far away, shaking its olive green scales and gnawing on an unknown ferocious beast.
The newly born dark anaconda from the bronze plate sensed his presence and looked up at him blankly.
Pang Jian, frightened, turned his head and looked around.
Then he found that he was not in Bagua City, but seemed to be in the mountains that he had seen from the top of the Tongtian Jie Pillar with the help of the dark giant anaconda.
Turning back and gazing further, he saw the majestic stone pillar that lived up to its name, as if it led to the depths of the sky.
All the mountains around him were nowhere near as tall as that towering pillar.
Looking up from the bottom, one cannot see the top, nor the huge stone pillars of the Bagua City, standing in the empty wasteland of the fifth realm, as if suppressing all living beings for tens of millions of years.
When countless creatures from the fifth realm wanted to climb to the upper realm with the help of the Heaven-reaching Tribulation Pillar, they were all turned into corpses and skeletons.
This newly born dark giant anaconda actually returned to the land of the fifth realm from the Bagua City on the top of the Tongtian Tribulation Pillar!
It also crossed the vast wasteland littered with endless corpses and bones, and came to the mountains full of evil vitality, strengthening itself by hunting and killing the ferocious beasts of the fifth realm.
“Hmm!”
Pang Jian screamed in shock.
In the depths of the dark sky, sparse "raindrops" suddenly began to fall. When one drop of "rain" fell with a "bang" and shattered into pieces, he realized that it was a corpse.
He was a person just like him, and also a practitioner!
Heaven.
The sparse "raindrops" continued to fall, sprinkling on the land in all directions of the fifth realm.
Pang Jian took a deep breath, knowing that an unimaginable disaster was happening in the world above.
That was the fourth realm when he came.
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(End of this chapter)